Re: [Chicken-users] How easy is it to use Chicken in Windows XP

[Ashley Bone]

Sean D wrote:
> After struggling horribly, trying (and failing) to get ECL running in 
> Windows I am really looking for a better experience.
>
> I tend to use "pure" Windows XP and free C/C++ tools so either GNU gcc 
> is fine or MS Visual C++ 2005. Note that I don't have access to MSVC 
> the commercial version. Is it possible to install and build a good 
> working version of Chicken on Windows XP:
>
> 1. At all.
> 2. Yes if you are a MAKE, Linux, Windows and C++ expert and have the 
> patience of Job
> 3. Yes, but only under Cygwin etc. (of which I know very little except 
> they can be a pain to use/maintain as well)
> 4. Yes but only with the commercial MSVC or very specific versions of 
> certain software.
> 5. Yes but with some combination I haven't mentioned or thought of.
> 6. YES Easily!!
> 7. YES - I can download latest virus-free executable version for 
> Windows from .... (please supply URL)
>
>
> Please let me know in detail how I go about this as I am not an expert 
> in any of the above 1-5.
>
> (prays for 6 or 7 .......)

I've never had any problem building Chicken with MSVC, using nmake and 
the included windows
makefile.  I believe I also built it once with gcc and cygwin, but only 
as a test.  I use cygwin for its
tools, not as a development target.


ashley